| This story is part of a partnership that includes KQED, NPR and Kaiser Health News. It can be republished for free. (details) Troy and Alana Pack had spent the day at their neighborhood Halloween party in Danville. Ten-year-old Troy went as a baseball player, and 7-year-old Alana was a good witch. In the afternoon, they changed out of their costumes and set out for a walk with their mother. Destination: Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors. “Alana, she liked anything with chocolate,” says their father, Bob Pack. “Troy, for sure, bubble gum ice cream, ’cause he liked counting the bubble gums that he would get.” Bob and Carmen Pack with their children Troy and Alana, who were killed by an impaired driver. Bob has been pushing for California's Prop 46 to be passed. Bob Pack stayed home. His family made it only half a mile down the road before his phone rang: “I received a call from a neighbor screaming there’d been an accident. And I raced down there.” An impaired driver had veered off the road and hit Troy and Alana head-on. Pack was doing CPR on Troy when the paramedics arrived. “I remember telling them I love them, and hang on. Just praying that they could hang on,” he says Troy and Alana were pronounced dead at the hospital. In the months after their death, Pack’s wife, Carmen, retreated into her Catholic faith. Bob Pack was angry. “I think, for me to get through, I needed action,” he says, “and I needed to... |
